Pedro Argüelles Morán

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March 18 is not a day we usually look forward to at CPJ. On
this day in 2003, the Cuban government launched a massive crackdown on the
independent press resulting in the jailing of 29 reporters. But this year we
have reason to feel encouraged. On March 4, with the release of Pedro Argüelles Morán,
the last of the Black Spring
journalists was released.

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New York, March 7,
2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Cuban
independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on Friday, and calls on Cuban
authorities to eliminate all conditions on his freedom. Argüelles Morán, at left, was the
last of 29 reporters arrested during a 2003 massive government crackdown on
dissent to be allowed to leave jail, on parole.

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New
York, February 14, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Cuban
authorities today to place no conditions on the release of journalist Héctor
Maseda Gutiérrez, who was freed on parole Saturday. Maseda Gutiérrez is a founding member of the independent
news agency Grupo de Trabajo Decoro and a winner of CPJ's International Press
Freedom Award in 2008.

Dear President Rodríguez Zapatero: The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed that the Cuban government has yet to fulfill its promise to free all journalists imprisoned during the 2003 crackdown on dissent. We urge your government, which was a key party to the agreement to release the prisoners by November 2010, to hold President Raúl Castro to his word.

New York, March 4, 2010—A week after the death of jailed Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a journalist on a hunger strike is seriously ill while health conditions of imprisoned reporters remain dire. As the seventh anniversary of the massive crackdown on dissidents approaches on March 18, the Committee to Protect Journalists renews its call for the Cuban government to immediately and unconditionally release all jailed journalists.

CPJ research indicates that the following journalists have disappeared while doing their work. Although some of them are feared dead, no bodies have been found, and they are therefore not classified as "Killed." If a journalist disappeared after being held in government custody, CPJ classifies him or her as "Imprisoned" as a way to hold the government accountable for the journalist's fate.